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Only a proposed ban on the sale of takeaway alcohol on Sundays has been rejected.

In his review, former NT Supreme Court chief justice Trevor Riley called for a $1.50 minimum price for a standard alcoholic drink to ease the problem of heavily discounted wine which he said was sometimes cheaper than water.

Ms Fyles told Mix 104.9 in Darwin that the government would implement a $1.30 minimum.

She said that would put the minimum price for a bottle of wine at around $9.

In his other recommendations, Mr Riley called for the phase-out of small grocery stores selling alcohol.

He found the territory had the highest per-capita rate of alcohol consumption in Australia, one of the highest in the world, and the highest rate of hospitalisations due to alcohol misuse.

The Territory also has the nation's highest rates of alcohol-related crime, violence and death, which costs taxpayers about $640 million a year.